One 125-by-125 pixel ad on Peoria Pundit sells for a whopping $60.

For an entire month.

I’m just saying.

In lieu of that, I take donations. See PayPal tip jar to the right.

I thought about running it, but then I remembered that I sell advertising space for this very purpose.

That’s how I go green.

$96.70.

For one month.

I am being billed for the regular hosting — which was supposed to be $20 per month. And they are charging me extra for a “container” to hold my dangerously massive data base. Plus, they are charging me extra for CPU usage.

I can buy get a virtual private server (VPS) for about $50 a month.

When you add up how much I have paid them for two months service, this nearly surpasses what I collected to pay them for one whole year in advance.

I picked mediatemple because they advertised their “grid service” as being able to handle the kind of high server loads that the Blog Peoria Network suffers from. Say what you want about the outages I suffered from under the old server company, they didn’t deduct a $100 bucks from my credit card at their whim, and they went me a bill every month and gave me a week or so to pay.

Needless to say, I’m going to be moving again, this time to a VPS. And I may put out the begging bowl again. Although I would much prefer to sell two $50/month 125×125 ads to cover the cost instead. Hint hint.

UPDATE: I notice that charged me $5.81 earlier this month for something else. I have no idea what it was.

Screw these guys.

And by the way: It’s sooooooo pretentious to not capitalize your name.

UPDATE 2: This is the ticket I just submitted to mediatemple:

My credit card was just charged $96.70.

Please send me an itemized bill for everything this $96.70 covers.

Thank you.

The screen indicated there was an estimated response time of 2 hours and 53 minutes. Mediatemple has NEVER responded to a trouble ticket within the time states without there being a corresponding phone call.

Well see.